The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution

by D Edelstein (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $52.59

  Argues that the revolutionaries of eighteenth-century France used the natural right concept of the 'enemy of the human race' - an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities - to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror.